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<Research Notes>The Relationship between the "Koutekinaba" and the Public Forum Doctrine
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Distance between Libraries and Social Issues in the Early 1950s
No full textIn history studies, the relationships between libraries and social and/or political issues have not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine librarians' thoughts regarding the roles of libraries in a social context just before approval of "The Statement on Intellectual Freedom in Libraries" (1954). We focus on the arguments of the neutrality of libraries (1952-1953) on Toshokan Zashi and "Appeal to Library Associations for the Prohibition of Atomic Weapon, " which was approved at the All-Japan Librarians Conference in 1954. Ariyama Takashi (executive director of the Japan Library Association) warned librarians not to declare an ideological position directly and recommended that they concentrate on the role of the public library as an information center, which was to provide various materials. As the basis of the statement that would affect Japanese librarianship, his concept did not gain a dominant position in the early 1950s. Librarians recognized the nature of the public library in various ways. The arguments related to the neutrality of libraries and the appeal clarified the conflict between the role of libraries to provide all points of view and the adoption of specific positions related to social and/or political issues
The Relationship between the Freedom to Know as the Ethical Value of Libraries and the Right to Know as a Legal Term
No full textThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the freedom to know as the ethical value of libraries and the right to know as a legal term by focusing on the historical development of both concepts. In the Statement on Intellectual Freedom in Libraries (approved 1954, revised 1979), the Japan Library Association (JLA) states that the most important responsibility of libraries is to offer collected materials and facilities to people who have the freedom to know as one of their fundamental human rights. JLA introduced the legal logic of the right to know into the Statement, and both concepts have the same nature. However, the purpose of each concept is different. In the argument on the right to know, journalists and legal scholars emphasize freedom of the press or access to government information. On the other hand, librarians intended to guarantee the free flow of information and access to general information
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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